Dalia Grybauskaite Quotes

Nothing has really taken me aback more as Secretary of State than the way that the politics of energy is –… warping diplomacy around the world…we have simply got to do something about the warping now of diplomatic effort by the all-out rush for energy supply

When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.

Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.

America is addicted to oil.

Show this administration an oil well, and it will show you a foreign policy.

In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

The less oil the world uses, the less important the region that has so much of it becomes.

American oil operations are, for all practical purposes, instruments of our foreign policy.

As far as the Middle East and North Africa is concerned, we need to reconsider the question of reliability and stability of hydrocarbons.

I don't think for a minute we went to Iraq for oil. It just so happened that it had oil. But I think we'll come out of the Iraqi situation with a call on their oil at market price.

Global fuel and consumption, however, is projected to increase by 100 to 150 percent over the next 20 years, driven largely by the rapidly growing Chinese and Indian economies; and this growth and this increase in demand will force prices even higher.

The future of the world will belong to whoever can harness energy and food.

The more we focus on using renewable fuels, the less we are dependent upon foreign oil.

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

We have to be careful because if one day the world is short of energy, it will be our responsibility. Everybody will ask Total, 'Why don't you have more oil?'

President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy.

Our society, our culture - the greatness of America - goes hand-in-hand with energy, and our leaders need to wake up. We need energy, OK?

As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to be an increasingly bigger part of the global mix.

What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.

I think Gov. Romney and Congressman Ryan are living in a fairly tale land on their energy policy.

Oil is a very important component of economic growth.

It's not an if - we're going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone.

What do Saddam Hussein and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle have in common? Neither man wants America to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The real moral is this: It does not matter how much oil is produced domestically and how much is imported. Presidents may declare that there is an “urgent need” to cut imports and boost “energy independence” — no one ever lost political support by seeing evil and blaming foreigners.

Energy Independence